Giddy Up Rub'n Color El Grande Kit | 
| Brand: Giddy Up
Category: Toy
List Price: $24.99
Buy New: $12.95
You Save: $12.04 (48%)
New (3) from $12.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 16965
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 2.2 x 12.1 x 15.3
MPN: 4200304
Model: 304
UPC: 876642003040
EAN: 0876642003040
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Rub to Color with the rubbing tool, with your fingernail, with almost anything. | | • | Create Textures with the texture plate. | | • | Stencil shapes for adding pictures to drawings. | | • | Featuring clean color technology. |
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Product Description
It's totally mess-less art! Kids can use the rubbing tools, their fingernail, or just about anything else to create colorful works of art. No messy coatings to scratch, scrape or flake off. There are 118 posters and pages to color, along with stencils, texture plates, tools and more. Complete set includes 24 large Rub-N-Color posters, 12 medium Rub-N-Color posters, 16 mini Rub-N-Color posters, 24 page game book, 24 framed pages, 2 texture plates, 16 blank pages, 48 stickers, 42 stencil designs and 2 Rub-N-Color tools.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Short term entertainment July 7, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The kids really enjoyed it initially. A set with fewer coloring pages and a lower price would be better for us because while the lure of many pages was exciting, the kids only eagerly used it a couple of days. I'm sure they'll use it periodically, but most of the set will be given or thrown away because once you see how it works, the excitement is gone.
 She Loves It May 21, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this for my 8 year old daughter's birthday after she saw it on TV. While I wasn't overly impressed with it, she loves it! The colors aren't very bright and you have to rub really hard, but she has played with this none-stop for about a week now. She likes all the different tools it comes with and the different patterns you discover on each page. Overall a great value.
 A sad, sad little product May 1, 2007
7 out of 20 found this review helpful
I just saw this product on TV and I must admit that after seeing the commercial, it made me a little sad.
I thought the whole point of children's creative activities is to foster things like individuality, observation, personality, creativity. I didn't see any of this in this product. In fact, the more I think about it the more I think it was designed for the convenience of the parent ("No markers! No crayons!") and not the kids. The product serves a simple purpose: it eliminates crayons and markers from the child's environment and hence the rist of damaging furniture, floors and walls. They just rub on the paper and the color (whatever color has been already decided) "magically" appears.
The product also eliminates the decision making process of choosing colors based on what you observe or desire or even the effort of trying to color within the lines. I can see parents using this stuff on a trip or while traveling, but one of the key selling points of the commercial was the elimination of crayons and markers. My guess is that they (the manufacturers) would love it if their product was used everywhere and everytime children wanted to 'color'.
Some of the cutest things I remember from anyone else's children were the drawings they'd make. It was the purple trees, the blue apples and the efforts (and the obvious failure) of coloring within the lines that made those drawings precious.
What was once an intellectually engaging activity, now it's just a repetitive motion of rubbing on a page.
How sad. I know I'd ask the parent if they kid (and they) would appreciate markers or crayons before I'd purchase any for their children, but I'd never buy this product.
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